However, we did not think about the other implication of performing the Apocalypse, which is, of course, that nothing comes afterwards. We chose the Last Judgement on the grounds that Revelation - as commentators have noted for more than a millennium - already has some… interesting material. And yet, of course, while we wanted to have fun with it, we were also very conscious that the last thing we wanted to do was to offend anyone in our audience, which was to have an unusually high concentration of vicars. That, we decided - or, rather, hoped - gave us the freedom we would need to pull off something like this. We’d been told we could adapt the script we had been given, which was a modernised version of the Last Judgement from the Towneley Plays. Us, whose only theatrical experience in Oxford had been an absurd fairy-tale play in which a feminist Snow White rejects her housewife role and retells her own story (having one of the dwarves play her part in drag) - us perform a serious play? About the Bible? Emma took the news back to us - and we laughed at her. Based on the popular form of entertainment across Europe in the Middle Ages, the plays were to narrate the greatest hits of the Bible, from the Creation to the Last Judgement, and to be staged at various locations around the college. Later that Michaelmas, Professor Lähnemann, having heard about our Drama Cuppers exploits, approached director Emma Hawkins (2018, Fine Art) about her plan to host a Medieval Mystery Play Cycle, asking if she would be interested in organising a group from Teddy Hall. Yet even with these strange beginnings, we could never have predicted what it would get us into. Having been warned that Teddy Hall was not well known for its pursuit of the dramatic arts, we were giddy with our own success. To universal amazement, we not only pulled off our abridged and chaotic production of The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, but made it through to the finals, after which we were nominated for several awards. Not one member of the final cast of Teddy Hall’s 2018 entry in the freshers-only drama competition expected to be part of it, and the cast was only settled, and rehearsals only began, about a week before the first performance. The Mary Sue has a strict comment policy that forbids, but is not limited to, personal insults toward anyone, hate speech, and trolling.-įollow The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google+.In the beginning, there was Drama Cuppers. What are your favorite Hamilton covers? Throw those links at me! I guess choruses performing sung-through versions of the score works just fine as a compromise, at least until the theatrical rights become available. I don’t think schools have the rights to stage Hamilton officially, because usually it’s not possible to secure the rights to perform any show that’s currently on Broadway. That said, kids performing Hamilton sounds like the best thing ever to me. They all have promising careers in musical theatre already, so it’s not like these are just kids from a school performing a production of Hamilton … not that I wouldn’t also be thrilled to see that!Īs an example, I cried like a baby the other day watching these students from Curie High School perform “Wait For It” from Hamilton: As for the other three youngsters, that’s School of Rock’s Luca Padovan as Eliza, Les Misérables’ Joshua Colley as Angelica, and Kinky Boots’ Douglas Baldeo as Peggy. This is sort of funny when it comes to Hamilton, though, since the show’s all about casting people in roles for which they’d ordinarily never be considered! (Refer to: every all-white production of 1776, ever.)Īnyway, in the role of Aaron Burr, we’ve got Ana Villafañe, who stars as Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet. This performance comes from MCC Theater’s “Miscast Gala,” an annual event at which Broadway stars get to perform in roles that they’d otherwise never get to do. Small, adorable, mega-talented children performing gender-swapped Hamilton, folks. I’m not going to bury the lede: this video features three young boys doing a gender-swapped performance of “The Schuyler Sisters” from Hamilton, plus a girl opening up the song with Aaron Burr’s part.
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